Friday, November 08, 2013

Brussels' useful idiots

Do the BBC and the CBI
seriously think free trade between Britain and the European Union would cease
if this country withdrew from the super-state?

This week Britain’s bosses’
organisation has been issuing dire warnings about the (completely invented)
number of jobs that would disappear if we voted to leave the EU.Then the BBC treated us to
the not-unreasonable comments of Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn saying the company would have
to “reconsider” its investments in Britain if we left the EU.All
he said was: "If anything has to change, we [would]
need to reconsider our strategy and our investments for the future."Of course they would.That does not mean they would close down,
shut up shop and move to Hungary as the BBC implies.What Mr Ghosn and any other sensible industrialist would need to
know is that Britain’s trade links with Europe were unharmed.They may discover
they have been improved, which would, we must assume, lead to a reconsideration
leading to extra investment not less.What the propagandists for the EU are trying to do – and not
without success – is terrify us into believing that withdrawal would lead to
the shut-down of UK plc as a trading nation.It’s complete nonsense.This country runs an estimated £70 billion-a-year trade deficit
with the EU (and a £13 billion surplus with the rest of the world). That means
we import from other European countries a whole lot more than we sell to them.There is absolutely no chance that they would seek to impose
some sort of trade barriers on the UK when they would have more to lose than we
would.Withdrawal from the EU does not mean an end to free trade.
Nobody in their right mind wants that. If some sort of trade war were to
ensure, the EU would be the biggest loser. So it’s just not going to happen.The CBI, the BBC and all the other outlets for Brussels
propaganda really should acknowledge this as a fact rather than trying to frighten
people into submission.